My first car movie. Loved it as a kid, painful to watch as an adult.
My first car movie. Loved it as a kid, painful to watch as an adult.
Um, I like Corvette Summer. Have it on VHS! Don't hate me.
As far as inconsistency, in filming in Passenger 57, Wesley Snipes hops into a red Corvette C4 convertible to head (I don't recall where). When he arrives across town he's in an older C4. He goes from like a 93 to an 86. Obviously was filmed at two different times in two completely different places and they simply needed a convertible C4. I made my roommates pause the tape and play it back to show them. They were not impressed and learned not to argue with me when a car came on screen.
I love the low budget TV action trick where you know a car is about to blow up when it suddenly turns into another car that's 10 years older than the one they've been using most of the episode.
In reply to vwcorvette :
I never understand why they do similar, really obvious things in big budget movies. In Mission Impossible: whatever, they have a big car chase where they are driving a 4 door M3, and suddenly when they take it down the huge stairs it becomes a 320, or an M3 with the lowest end wheels on it. And they are very prominently featured in several of the shots.
In reply to Apis Mellifera :
Hadn’t seen that one before - thanks for sharing!
Don’t forget Cannonball with David Carradine; it is so bad it’s good!
chandler said:Oh man, I stayed out of this til you mentioned The Great Race; that’s a fun one!
I watched that all the time on VHS when I was growing up. It's still one of the better examples of madcap comedy with cars.
Speaking of Carradine, how has no one in this thread mentioned the best of all car movies?
Death Race 2000
Not one single mention of Sly’s Indycar film, Driven? Worst racing movie ever. I got to see it for free for taking my dad and step-mom’s Formula Vee’s to the theatre for the promoting of the movie. I still walked out.
In reply to racerfink :
Is that the one where the kid driver was always sweaty? Always, even when he had to clean up for a black tie event? If so, yeah, man, that was awful.
The first F&F is the only one I liked. And that’s because, even though it was cheesy, it was actually about street racing. Not a blatant rip off of Die Hard. Each movie after number one became more and more about the ridiculous, and less about the cars.
They could really restart that series with a whole new story and a whole new cast. Make it about some dumb kid that gets busted street racing. And how he “finds his way” into the real world of racing.
RealMiniNoMore said:
My first car movie. Loved it as a kid, painful to watch as an adult.
This movie sucked ass as a kid. It was so bad that in 6th grade they played it THREE freaking times in one year for us. On the second and third viewing, I actually made a scene to get in trouble and be sent to the library, where I read a book by R.L. Stine.
My standards are low; i.e. I like many movies that feature cars, even if the details are VERY off. Here's an example that nobody mentions, the few people who know about it generally hate it, and I like the film enough to have a copy.
Yes, Stallone as an aging driver who is also fabricating a vintage race car in his barn. In my mind, I like to pretend the metal came from water heaters. 
Racerfink mentioned that one earlier.
For those who like car TV shows, the new season of Proving Grounds is coming out soon. I know that one of the youthful hosts has an amazingly deep knowledge of Driven and can give you a complete rundown of all plots and subplots and backstories, and this is worked into one of the upcoming episodes. It had everyone in stitches.
Saw one on TV the other day called "Born to Race." Had a cheesy storyline like F&F had a one-night stand with Grease, bargain-bin actors and acting, but I was just so damn impressed by the technical accuracy of it. The most technically questionable thing I saw was a guy who was able to drive for a significant amount of time without realizing that a brake line had been sliced open.
Born to Race - for being technically correct, the best kind of correct, I salute you!
Stampie said:I can't watch any of the Fast and the Furious.
When a friend started playing the first one (back when it was the only one) and a single person was driving by himself on a course he set up with about ten SCCA regions' worth of brand new cones, spaced about two feet apart, I ejected the disk and flung it out the window.
His kid loves them. He was watching one of the sequels one time, and they were airdropping cars or something, and they are bouncing off of the ground like they were Matchbox cars.
_ said:The first F&F is the only one I liked. And that’s because, even though it was cheesy, it was actually about street racing. Not a blatant rip off of Die Hard. Each movie after number one became more and more about the ridiculous, and less about the cars.
They could really restart that series with a whole new story and a whole new cast. Make it about some dumb kid that gets busted street racing. And how he “finds his way” into the real world of racing.
You gotta love 2010s-produced CGI animation that also includes hand-drawn manga "speed lines" and 1970s-vintage video camera light persistence.
(yes, 2010s: this GIF is from the movie series, not the late 90s and First Stage)
Keith Tanner said:InitialD never appealed to me. First off, the character animation was just plain ugly. Contrast that with eX-driver and you see that it doesn't have to be. But every single race seemed to involve hooking a wheel in the ditch. No matter what the challenge, just hook that wheel in that stupid ditch and you win. Too bad, because there were obviously some car guys involved otherwise.
You missed the later seasons, where that didn't work anymore, so he started driving with his headlights off so as to confuse the person he was trying to pass.
Spoiler: The entire final season was dedicated to a single race against a teenager who had been taught to drive an AE86 very fast but wasn't actually interesting in driving, it was just something his mom had him do. Takumi blew the Group A engine up right before the finish when he turned his headlights back on and the tach was pointing past 12000. (I assume that the Wile E. Coyote Principle of Physics also applies to automobiles in an animated setting: what you don't know won't hurt you, but as soon as you do know...)
Streetwiseguy said:I think,if there were an award for sound engineering in a car movie, it would be very tough to beat Gumball Rally.
Assuming that "Bullitt" is not a car movie, I agree. The scene in Gumball where they leave the river basin? Best audio of all time. ALL TIME.
I was going to have the player start the video from the relevant point, but come on. Worth the extra three minutes.
The second time I watched the movie (I was still, like, ten years old) I realized the ending was stupid. They started rally-style, not a collective standing start. The end of the movie made it seem like whoever came across the finish line first won. In reality, the Ferrari team started at 6:00:20 AM and the Cobra team started at 6:00:30, so the Cobra guys just had to get to the finish line less than ten seconds after the Ferrari team did. Emergency Plan Alpha was not strictly necessary.
Curtis said:I am way worse than you folks. I will straight up interrupt a movie and rudely swear at the TV if I notice ANYTHING out of whack. Ferris Beuller driving the Ferrari.... the sound effect clearly is a manual, but the car is an automatic. I watched something last week where they added FX for a Porsche 911SC starting up. You saw the actor put his hand near the key but not turn it, the sound effect was an old 70s mopar small block starter (that awful whiny starter sound), and the engine running was from a dual-port 1600 from a 60s VW. Another one that gets me is when they horribly mismatch the audio clip with acceleration/deceleration. A car pulls off slowly, but the sound effect is much higher RPM... or they come to a stop and the revs don't match the speed... but my BIGGEST PET PEEVE is when they show a car sliding on a dirt road and have the tire squealing sound like it's on pavement.
That used to bother me until I started rallycrossing. It happens often enough that we don't even bother commenting about it anymore.
I remember when Vanishing Point had a made-for-TV remake, and Car Craft had a reader poll over the specific reason why it sucked. The winner was the one who put it the most succinctly: "How hard would it have been to find a big block Mopar oil pan?"
(Part of the story was that the dude in the Challenger holed his oil pan in the desert and he met up with someone and, I don't know the full story, didn't see it, just video clips, but there was a shot of someone riding a motorcycle back from a junkyard with what was clearly a small block Chevy oil pan bungeed to their back. Big block Mopars had flat pan rails, there was no cutout)
ShawnG said:penultimeta said:
“Drive” is both an terrible movie and an terrible car movie
FTFY
Awful acting and a guy using the most conspicuous car in town as a getaway vehicle.
Want a good getaway vehicle? Use a grey crossover SUV or minivan. There's literally millions of them on the streets.
Ah, but what about the VERY short-lived Drive TV series with Nathan Fillion? I haven't been able to find it on video... only 6 episodes or so.
_ said:RealMiniNoMore said:
My first car movie. Loved it as a kid, painful to watch as an adult.
This movie sucked ass as a kid. It was so bad that in 6th grade they played it THREE freaking times in one year for us. On the second and third viewing, I actually made a scene to get in trouble and be sent to the library, where I read a book by R.L. Stine.
...which is sad, because the BOOK is actually quite fun for kids and adults.
Greg Smith said:_ said:RealMiniNoMore said:
My first car movie. Loved it as a kid, painful to watch as an adult.
This movie sucked ass as a kid. It was so bad that in 6th grade they played it THREE freaking times in one year for us. On the second and third viewing, I actually made a scene to get in trouble and be sent to the library, where I read a book by R.L. Stine.
...which is sad, because the BOOK is actually quite fun for kids and adults.
...and written by Ian Fleming. Yes, that Ian Fleming.
GIRTHQUAKE said:
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I just want to be a real human bean with another Drive
I see what you did there...
New Bean Bandit project is coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispZb4eUW-8
The F and F movies fall under turn your brain off when watching. Also, what about the BMW driver short films?
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